Tobacco-pipe.



J. N. GQURTNEY.

v ToBAcco PIPE. APPLIUATION 'ILED DEO. 5, 1908.

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JOHN `N. COURTNEY, OF EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI.

TOBACCO-PIPE.

Application filed December 5, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

Serial No. 466,135.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN N. COURTNEY, citizen of the United States, residing at Excelsior Springs, in the county of Clay and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco- Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object, a simple, durable and eiiicient construction of tobacco pipe which will insure a sweet, cool smoke, and effectually prevent saliva from being sucked back into the smokers mouth with the smoke. And the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following description, and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view through my improved pipe; and, Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the bowl of my improved tobacco pipe, and 2 the stem thereof, said stem being formed with two distinct longitudinally eX- tending openings 3 and 4 disposed one above the other, both of the openings communicating with the interior of the bowl 1 at the base thereof, and being connected together at their rear ends by a passage 5. Between their ends, the openings 3 and 4 are intersected by the relatively small upper ends of a chamber 6 which is formed in the stem 2, as shown, the lower end of said chamber being enlarged as indicated at 7 and the stem at such point being formed with a threaded boss 8 designed for engagement by a screw cap 9 to close the lower end of said chamber. The lower end of said chamber communicates with the lowermost opening 4 in the stem by means of a preferably obliquely disposed passage 10 extending upwardly and forwardly from the chamber, as clearly illustrated in the drawings.

11 designates the mouth piece which may be secured to the stem 2 in any desired way, and which is formed, in addition to the usual smoke passage 12, with a passage 12a which is located at the ti end of the mouth piece as shown, and w ich intersects the smoke passage 12 and which extends downwardly therefrom, opening at the lower side of the mouth-piece immediately in advance of the tip.

ln the practical use of a tobacco pipe constructed as set forth in the foregoing description and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, when the pipe isfilled and lighted, the fire will be in the upper part of the bowl 1 and the smoke will evidently enter the channel or opening 3 and following the course indicated by the darts, any saliva that might obtain access to the ste-m following the course indicated by the other darts and iiowing into the collecting chainber which intersects said openings 3 and 4. The passage 10 gives vent to the collecting chamber and has a tendency to drive any of the products of distillation of the tobacco from the opening 4 into the chamber while manifestly any of such distillates or the like that pass into the uppermost opening 3 will also tend to be collected in said chamber, the upper portion of which intersects both of said openings 3 and 4, hence the opening or channel 3 will, at all times, be clean and cool, preventing the smoke from passing through any nicotine that might accumulate in the opening 4 and the chamber 7 before it reaches the smokers mouth.

It is a well known fact, among pipe smokers that the saliva gets into the stem by the smoker put-ting his tongue against the tip end of the stem or mouth-piece. By the provision of the passage 12al before described, my improved tobacco pipe possesses another important advantage in that any saliva that might get into the mouth-piece by the tongue coming in contact with the tip thereof would tend to gravitate through the passage 12a, and come out between the teeth and lip.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a tobacco pipe embodying a bowl, and a stem portion, thestem being formed with two distinct longitudinally extending openings both of which communicate with the interior of the bowl at the base thereof.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described tobacco pipe embodying a bowl and a stem, the stem being formed with two distinct longitudinally extending openings both of which communicate 'at their Civ forward ends with the interior of the bowl, the stem being also formed with a collecting chamber intersecting both of said openings.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described tobacco pipe, embodying a. bowl, and a stem, said stem beingformed with two distinct openings, one above the other, both of which communicate at their forward ends with the interior of the bowl, the stem being also formed with a passage Connecting said openings together at their rear ends and witha chamber intersecting both of said openings between the ends of the latter. i Y

4. As a new article of manufacture, a tobacco pipe, embodying a bowl and astein, the stem being formed with Vlongitudinally extending openings 4extending therethrough, and communicating with the interior of the bowl, and the stem being also formed with a collecting chamber intersecting saidopenings, and having a forwardly extending Ypassage connecting one of said openings with the chamber. Y Y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. V

f kJOHN N. coURTNEY. 

